Offshore Wind Install Method, LM Vibration Reduction

This week on Power-Up, a method for installing offshore wind turbines with a substructure with built in containers that can be transported easily, and LM Windpower's way of reducing some of the vibrations from stationary wind blades. Plus some over-the-top body armor... Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.comJoin us at The Wind Energy O&M Australia Conference - https://www.windaustralia.com Allen Hall: Welcome to Power Up, the Uptime Podcast focused on the new, hot off the press technology that can change the world. Follow along with me, Allen Hall, and IntelStor's Phil Totaro, as we discuss the weird, the wild, and the game changing ideas that will charge your energy future. Phil, our first idea is assigned to Grant Prideco and it's a method for installing an offshore wind turbine and a substructure, and this idea It is rather unique in offshore wind in that it has a substructure in built in containers that can be transported relatively easily. And so, and the way it's described is like a vertical garage. when the, when the tower sections arrive at its destination. Once on site, the tower is raised straight up from its container using a winch. And this eliminates a need for some of the installation vessels, which are so expensive and what everybody's trying to get away from right now. And you can't find them. So there's a number of really interesting concepts. that reduce that, and this is one of them. So it lets the simplest ships install towers and install the nacelles and blades much closer at sea level before a final tower lift is done. So it does change the complexity of offshore wind dramatically. I haven't seen this implemented yet, but it seems like Philip Totaro: it will be soon. Well, it, it very well could be, considering the push towards larger turbine sizes offshore and as you mentioned, the desire to, eliminate a lot of extra reliance on large crane vessels and installation vessels. But the idea itself, you mentioned it's currently assigned to Grand Pride Co., but it was originally conceived by National Oil Well Varco, NOV that's actually got a pretty lengthy history at this point, obviously in oil and gas, but also in offshore wind including installation vessel involvement and concepts like this, they've, they've been patenting ideas for, for good on 10 years now. And what is kind of interesting and unique about this, as you mentioned, is imagine, a turban, where like the blades are all kind of folded down. The upper section of the tower is kind of folded down in and is telescoped down inside the lower sections of, of the tower and even down into, a portion of the transition piece and monopile. And basically what they're saying is you can put the monopile in place and then take this thing out. Pick it and plop it down and then just have like this internal winch system to, to pluck out all the different bits and pieces of, of the turban inside, you would still have to do a nacelle pick. So I think it's, maybe not quite as a cost and time efficient as, as everyone might think, but it is fewer sorties by the vessels themselves carrying and ferrying components from port to project site. So that is something that, that could prove to be useful in the future. And, and we'll see, if, if they're gonna, if NOV is gonna, continue to push this out and, and drive this technology into the state of commercial use. Well, our second